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by armagost on Thursday October 04, 2007 @10:05PM (#20861937) Attached to: Slashdot Anniversary: Pasadena, CA, US

I'd like to go to the party--but I've never attended a meeting.

Is it okay if I show up at Burger Continental?

I'll try to make the meeting, too.

LaTeX interests me. I've been a GIMP fan for years.

I live in Riverside but I'll be house-sitting in the Pasadena area.

I'll bring my Nokia n800 along.

Submission + - Space station computers partially restored (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by Raver32 on Friday June 15, 2007 @07:22AM

Raver32 writes: Computers that control navigation and key life-support systems on the International Space Station were partially restored on Thursday after failing the day before. Flight controllers were able to re-establish some communication with the computers overnight, with Russian engineers working Thursday to restore the rest of the system, NASA space station flight director Holly Ridings said. Astronaut Sunita Williams uses a computer in the Unity node of the space station while Atlantis was docked on Tuesday. The crew of the shuttle and station are working to restore computers that failed earlier this week.Astronaut Sunita Williams uses a computer in the Unity node of the space station while Atlantis was docked on Tuesday. The crew of the shuttle and station are working to restore computers that failed earlier this week. "They've made a lot of progress," she said. "There are some cleanup steps to do still and some investigation."

Submission + - Intel's future processors

Submitted by madison on Friday June 15, 2007 @07:05AM

madison writes: Researchers at Intel are working on ways to mask the intricate functionality of massive multicore chips to make it easier for computer makers and software developers to adapt to them, said Jerry Bautista, co-director of Intel's Tera-scale Computing Research Program. These multicore chips, he added, will also likely contain both x86 processing cores, as well as other types of cores. A 64-core chip, for instance, might contain 42 x86 cores, 18 accelerators and four embedded graphics cores.

In another development Intel has updated its Itanium roadmap to include a new chip dubbed "Kittson" which will follow the release of Poulson- which will be based on a new microarchitecture that provides higher levels of parallelism. "There will be four or more cores, multithreading enhancements, and we'll also introduce more instructions to take advantage of parallelism, especially in virtualization." said William Wu, regional marketing manager for server platforms at Intel Asia-Pacific.